The Firebug team uses some special phrases for parts of Firebug. This list was created with the intention to give you an overview over the terminology together with a description of the things and therefore help you to understand what we are talking about at [http://getfirebug.com getfirebug.com], in issues, forums etc..

The Firebug team uses some special phrases for parts of Firebug. This list was created with the intention to give you an overview over the terminology together with a description of the things and therefore help you to understand what we are talking about at [http://getfirebug.com getfirebug.com], in issues, forums etc..

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== General ==

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| [[FBTest|Firebug Test Console (FBTest)]] || A dialog containing automated test suites for Firebug and other extensions. You can open it using Firebug Menu -> Open Test Console.

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| [[FBTrace|Firebug Tracing Console (FBTrace)]] || A console displaying various log messages helping Firebug developers to debug a debugger. You can open it using Firebug Menu -> Open Firebug Tracing.

| Panel Bar || Main bar including the Firebug Menu, the Inspect Button, the Navigation History Buttons, a tab list of the different modules of Firebug, a search field and buttons for controlling the display and activation of Firebug

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| Main Bar || Area at the top of the Firebug UI including the Firebug Menu, the Inspect Button, the Navigation History Buttons, a tab list of the different modules of Firebug, a search field and buttons for controlling the display and activation of Firebug

| Breakpoints Side Panel || Side Panel listing all breakpoints created for the current page

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| [[Command Line|Command Line Popup]] || Command Line available inside every panel

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| Options Mini Menu || Menu with general options to the panel or tab

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| Breakpoint Column || Vertical column on the left hand side of a panel for easily creating and removing breakpoints

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| Ancestor Path || "Breadcrumb list" of the active or selected element and its anchestors inside the [[HTML Panel|HTML]], the [[DOM Panel|DOM]] and the [[Script Panel]]

| Ancestor Path || "Breadcrumb list" of the active or selected element and its anchestors inside the [[HTML Panel|HTML]], the [[DOM Panel|DOM]] and the [[Script Panel]]

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| Node Path || Ancestor Path of the [[HTML Panel]]

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| [[Search Field]] || Top right text field ( [[Image:searchFieldSmall.png]] ) of the panel bar for searching inside the currently active panel

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| Stack Frame Path || Ancestor Path of the [[Script Panel]]

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| Search Options Panel || Popup displayed at the [[Search Field]] containing the options related to the current search

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| Node View || Dynamic tree view of the markup based structure of the page inside the [[HTML Panel]]

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| [[Console Panel#Break On All Errors|Break On All Errors]] || Toggle button ( [[Image:Break_on_all_errors_button.png]] ) inside the Panel Toolbar of the [[Console Panel]] for stopping JavaScript execution on all JavaScript errors

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| Edit Mode || Mode of some panels for direct manipulation of the underlying source code, which can be activated through the "Edit" button inside the Panel Toolbar

| [[Console Panel#Break On All Errors|Break On All Errors]] || Toggle button ( [[Image:Break_on_all_errors_button.png]] ) inside the Panel Toolbar of the [[Console Panel]] for stopping JavaScript execution on all JavaScript errors

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| [[Command_Line#Auto-Completion|Completion List Popup]] || Popup listing all commands and properties available in the current context

| [[Style Side Panel]] || Side Panel including information about and manipulation options to the styles assigned to the currently in the Node View selected node

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| [[Script Panel#Break On Next|Break On Next]] || Toggle button ( [[Image:Break_On_Next_Button.png]] ) inside the Panel Toolbar of the [[Script Panel]] for stopping JavaScript execution on the next executed line

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| [[Computed Side Panel]] || Side Panel showing information about the computed styles for the currently in the Node View selected node

| [[Breakpoints Side Panel]] || Side Panel listing all breakpoints created for the current page

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| Stack Frame Path || Ancestor Path of the [[Script Panel]]

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| [[Script Panel#Break On Next|Break On Next]] || Toggle button ( [[Image:Break_On_Next_Button.png]] ) inside the Panel Toolbar of the [[Script Panel]] for stopping JavaScript execution on the next executed line

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| Script Location Menu || Menu button inside the toolbar of the [[Script Panel]] for switching between the different JavaScript containing files included in the currently displayed website and (based on the script filter) also eval() and event scripts

| Script Location Menu || Menu button inside the toolbar of the [[Script Panel]] for switching between the different JavaScript containing files included in the currently displayed website and (based on the script filter) also eval() and event scripts

Revision as of 17:22, 23 December 2012

The Firebug team uses some special phrases for parts of Firebug. This list was created with the intention to give you an overview over the terminology together with a description of the things and therefore help you to understand what we are talking about at getfirebug.com, in issues, forums etc..

A console displaying various log messages helping Firebug developers to debug a debugger. You can open it using Firebug Menu -> Open Firebug Tracing.

Firebug UI

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Term

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Module

Logical part of web development (like HTML, CSS, DOM etc.)

Main Bar

Area at the top of the Firebug UI including the Firebug Menu, the Inspect Button, the Navigation History Buttons, a tab list of the different modules of Firebug, a search field and buttons for controlling the display and activation of Firebug

Toggle button ( ) inside the Panel Toolbar of the Script Panel for stopping JavaScript execution on the next executed line

Script Location Menu

Menu button inside the toolbar of the Script Panel for switching between the different JavaScript containing files included in the currently displayed website and (based on the script filter) also eval() and event scripts